NBC: What’s it like to negotiate with him?
Pelosi: “When you’re negotiating with someone, you have to know— you stipulate to some fact. It’s hard to do that with the president, because he resists science, evidence, data, truth… It’s hard to pin the president down on the facts.”

Watching Mike Pence, hand-picked by Paul Manafort and head of Trump’s transition team along with traitor Michael Flynn, swearing in the Senators by asking them to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” is a bit surreal.

Incoming Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signaled “he would not go along with parts of lame-duck laws that curb his powers, suggesting that GOP lawmakers or their supporters would have to sue him over the issue,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

The Democrat’s stance changes the dynamic in the fight over the lame-duck legislation by prodding Republicans into initiating litigation instead of doing so himself.

When your president has fallen overboard, the best way to help him is to throw him an anvil:

“If he gives in now, that’s the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president,” Graham said. “That’s probably the end of his presidency. Donald Trump has made a promise to the American people: He’s going to secure our border.”

Deft work, Senator: Graham looks like Trump’s staunchest supporter, while he sticks the stiletto in really deep and twists it. Trump was probably grinning from ear to ear while he watched that interview, and didn’t even notice the blood spurting out of his guts.

Plus it’s a twofer: he harms Trump’s chance of being reelected chances, while enhancing his own.

@rikyrah: I’m sure there are enough committees and sub-committees to cover all the departments relevant to their domains. Start early with the investigations because it’s going to take a very long time to unwind all the lies, cons and thievery that’s been going on.

Incoming Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) signaled “he would not go along with parts of lame-duck laws that curb his powers, suggesting that GOP lawmakers or their supporters would have to sue him over the issue,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

The Democrat’s stance changes the dynamic in the fight over the lame-duck legislation by prodding Republicans into initiating litigation instead of doing so himself.

@rikyrah: That’s a BFD and needs to be standard operating procedure when an outgoing GOP majority does this shit; which will be always. Should have been done in NC, needs to also be done in Minnesota or whichever flyover hellhole just flipped the governorship. Good for Evers. He’s pulling a Mitch McConnell, let’s see how the GOP likes a taste of their own bullshit.

@The Moar You Know: Minnesota Gov was Dem (Dayton outgoing) and is still Dem (Walz incoming). All the Minnesota state-wide offices went Dem in the 2018 election. Dems flipped the Minnesota House while Senate retains a narrow (34 vs 33) Republican majority.

@Gin & Tonic: “Lindsay Graham’s chance of being elected President is roughly on a par with my chance of being elected Pope.”

Woe’s me! woe’s me! In Folly’s mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A Mailman unawares —
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.